Claude Desktop can now easily run Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi models — after Ollama’s first effort stalled
Open-weight model runner Ollama has reintroduced an integration with Claude Desktop that lets users connect Anthropic’s app to models served The post Claude Desktop can now easily run Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi models — after Ollama’s first effort stalled appeared first on The New Stack .
Ollama, the open-weight model runner, has reintroduced support for Claude Desktop, enabling users to connect Anthropic's app to models served through Ollama. This integration includes popular models such as Qwen, DeepSeek, and Kimi, which are accessible through Ollama's library while remaining within the Claude Desktop interface.
This follows Ollama's previous attempt in January to integrate with Anthropic's Messages API, but that integration was short-lived due to issues with non-Anthropic model IDs. The new implementation in Ollama's v0.33.0 addresses these issues by introducing a dedicated local proxy for Claude Desktop, which can be configured through Ollama's interface.
Once enabled, users can select models from Ollama's catalog, whether running locally or through Ollama Cloud, directly within Claude Desktop's model picker. This integration offers users the benefits of cost, speed, portability, and the ability to use fine-tuned models on their own data. The release also extends this functionality to Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based coding agent, which can already be pointed at Ollama's Anthropic-compatible API.
The new Claude Desktop integration is currently limited to Ollama's Mac app, but Ollama suggests that Windows support may be forthcoming.
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